The relationship of Occupational Stress & Job Demands with Sleep Quality: The Moderating Role of Social Support & Job Control
Subject Areas : Educationalfariba pahlevani 1 , Sima Parizadeh 2 , nasrin arshadi 3
1 - Department of industrial & Organozational Psychology, Faculty of Educational Science & Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
2 - Department of industrial & Organozational Psychology, Faculty of Educational Science & Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran
3 - Professor, Department of Psychology, Shahid Chamran, University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.
Keywords: occupational stress, job demands, sleep quality, social support, job control.,
Abstract :
The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship of occupational stress & job demands with sleep quality with moderating role of social support & job control. The research method was causal-correlational and statistical population includes all 480 staff employees of an industrial company in Ahwaz. The sample of study was 237 employees who were selected using stratified random sampling. For collecting data was used Health & Safety Executive (Health & Safety Executive (HSE) stress) Stress, Job Demands (De Jonge, Landeweerd, & Nijhuis, 1993), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) (Buysse & et al, 1989), Social Support (Wax, Philips, Holly, Tampson, Williams, & Stwart, 1986), & Job Control (Daniels, & Harris, 2005) questionnaires, & for analyzing data, was used Pearson's correlation coefficient & hierarchical regression analysis. Based on the results, stress & job demands have negative & significant relationship with sleep quality (p<0.01). Also, the findings indicated that social support & job control moderate the relationship stress & job demands with sleep quality (p<0.01).
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